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  2. Acre - Wikipedia

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    One acre equals 1 ⁄ 640 (0.0015625) square mile, 4,840 square yards, 43,560 square feet, [2] or about 4,047 square metres (0.4047 hectares) (see below).While all modern variants of the acre contain 4,840 square yards, there are alternative definitions of a yard, so the exact size of an acre depends upon the particular yard on which it is based.

  3. Acre-foot - Wikipedia

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    As the name suggests, an acre-foot is defined as the volume of one acre of surface area to a depth of one foot. Since an acre is defined as a chain by a furlong (i.e. 66 ft × 660 ft or 20.12 m × 201.17 m), an acre-foot is 43,560 cubic feet (1,233.5 m 3). There has been two definitions of the acre-foot (differing by about 0.0006%), using ...

  4. Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool [1] and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary units, it is defined as 16 + 12 feet, equal to exactly 1 ⁄ 320 of a mile, or 5 + 12 yards (a quarter of a surveyor's chain), and is exactly 5.0292 meters.

  5. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    An Olympic-size swimming pool holds over 2 acre-feet of water For larger volumes of liquid, one measure commonly used in the media in many countries is the Olympic-size swimming pool. [47] A 50 m × 25 m (164 ft × 82 ft) Olympic swimming pool, built to the FR3 minimum depth of 2 metres (6.6 ft) would hold 2,500 m 3 (660,000 US gal).

  6. Talk:Acre - Wikipedia

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    what is width of an acre in feet? 1 yard = 3 feet, so, 220 yd by 22 yd = 660 by 66 feet. Thus, 66 feet wide. Nik42 08:04, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC) If your "acre" is a rectangle, then its width is 43,560 ft² divided by the length in feet.

  7. Cent (area) - Wikipedia

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    One cent is defined as an area of 1 ⁄ 100 of an acre (40.5 m 2; 435.6 sq ft). ... Square feet 435.6000 Acres 0.01000000 Hectares 0.004046856 Square metres

  8. Central Coast lake spills for first time in 12 years. It’s ...

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    The water has continued to stream into the reservoir, and by Jan. 17 it hit a high of 334,235 acre-feet, according to Monterey County. One acre-foot of water is equal to 325,851 gallons.

  9. Rood (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Rood is an English unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre [2] or 10,890 square feet, exactly 1,011.7141056 m 2. A rectangle that is one furlong (i.e., 10 chains, or 40 rods) in length and one rod in width is one rood in area, as is any space comprising 40 perches (a perch being one square rod).